Category: Do nurses eat their young

Developing a Performance Improvement Plan is the last thing a person in leadership wants to do. Typically it is the capstone on a fifteen to eighteen-month effort to appeal to someone to choose a better way of conducting themselves at work. Let’s go through the checklist of documentation and interventions that should be captured in […]

At some point in our nursing career, we were all trained in the cycle of abusive behavior. Whether the topic was domestic violence, elder or child abuse, the cycle was the same. There would be an event followed by a period of expressed remorse and promises of reform. The abuser’s behavior would be […]

It is widely accepted that knowledge is power. Therefore, I think it is best to start by raising our awareness into the nature of a bully. I submit that the behavior we label as bullying is actually the mentality and noxious temperament of a narcissist in action. We can all benefit from a closer examination […]

I find it frustrating to acknowledge that despite all the work of recent years to implement initiatives aimed at creating healthy and safe workplace environments, that lateral and horizontal hostility still remains within the nursing profession. I think we all hoped that when the idea of Zero Tolerance bloomed into an actual human resource […]

The Key To Conducting A Complaint About Incivility and Bullying The way you investigate an allegation of bullying behavior must be standardized from the beginning and strictly based on the facts. Here are the key elements to do it right … L.I.S.T.E.N.: The Key To Investigating Incivility and Bullying It’s Monday morning. As you […]